What Must I Not Do to be Saved

• What Must I Do to be Saved?
• Acts 16:29-33
• Acts 16:29-33
• 29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.30 And he brought them out and said,"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 So they said,"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household
• Acts 16:29-33
• "32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.
• Acts 17 : 1-3
• Acts 17:1-4 … they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
• Acts 17 : 1-3
• Acts 17:1-4 … 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ."4 And some of them were persuaded…
• Which More Likely to Obey?
• A Roman soldier
• A Gentile
• Knew nothing of Jesus
• Jewish Synagogue
• Looking for the Messiah
• Knew their Scriptures
• Which More Likely to Obey?
• Same hour of night
• Three weeks … some persuaded
• Which More Likely to Obey?
• Knew he was lost
• Willing to do what he was told
• Many preconceived notions of what it was to be right with God
• Most People Today ?
• Like Acts 17, have own notions about salvation
• What wrong ideas do they need to give up so they can be saved?
• What Must I Do
• to be Saved ?
• I Must Not Think I Don’t Even Need to be Saved
• Not thinking of the problem of sin
• No one talks about sin or says “I am a sinner”
• Don’t Need to be Saved
• 48% believe there is only one God as the Bible
• 61% believe the God of the Bible no different from gods or spiritual beings in non Christian religions
• When We Talk about God …
• They may think we are talking about Allah
• Or they may think Eastern spiritual concept
• God is Holy
• 1 John 1:5-6 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
• God is Holy
• Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is DEATH, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• God is Holy
• 1 John 1:5-6 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
• God is Holy
• The Bible defines sin …. Drunkenness, lust, gossip, homosexuality, anger ….
• People today don’t like to be a sinner …
• People don’t feel lost
• Being saved seems needless and PAINFUL!
• Don’t need it … don’t want it
• We Need to Help People Take Sin Seriously
• Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• People do not want to feel lost or live with guilt
• People rationalize to reject God or God’s teaching about sin

• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• People do not want to feel lost or live with guilt
• People rationalize to reject God or God’s teaching about sin
• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• Turn to feelings, emotions to validate
• Religion is reduced to producing emotions and emotionalism
• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to Me,'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?
• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• Acts 17:22-24 "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• Acts 17:30-31 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead."
• I Must Not Rely on Feelings as being Saved
• Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
• I Must Not Make Up My Own Plan of Salvation
• Calvinism – God has already predestined who is going to be saved
• Work, Work, Work to earn your salvation
• I Must Not Make Up My Own Plan of Salvation
• Your own build-it-yourself salvation kit
• Principles of Salvation
• Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
• Principles of Salvation
• Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
• Principles of Salvation
• Trust is the basis of every relationship
• God is seeking to build a relationship with us by forgiving our sins
• Principles of Salvation
• Trust is the basis of every relationship
• God is seeking to build a relationship with us by forgiving our sins
• Principles of Salvation
• I need to trust that God has removed my sins, reconciled me with the death of His Son, loves me, and wants what is best for me
• Principles of Salvation
• Real trust, Real faith always acts
• Principles of Salvation
• James 2:24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
• Principles of Salvation
• Noah built an ark, Abraham went to Promised land
• Mark 2:5 – Jesus seeing their faith
• Principles of Salvation
• 2 Kings 5:10-13 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean."11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, "Indeed, I said to myself, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.